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Chapter 358: Dark Demon, Valiant and Tender-hearted
As he spoke, Dark put the ox horn and lion fangs on the cloth.
The milky white horn was lustrous and smooth as jade, whereas the lion fangs were lined with a conspicuous blood vessel on the inside.
Despite not being dropped by the floor boss that was the two-headed demonic being, they seemed to be even better in terms of quality, making it difficult to guess their origin.
While closely looking at these materials that could absolutely be used as core for magic crafting, the other three who were sitting around the display began to ponder carefully.
After a while, Rose pointed to one of the lion fangs and broke the silence, "Then I'll take this lion fang."
There was only one of the horn, but there were six fangs in total.
Using this as a basis, she had obviously judged the rarity of the ox horn to be higher than that of the lion fang and thus chose the latter.
"That won't do," Dianna instantly vetoed, "You're the one who contributed the most beside Dark. You should take this horn!"
Emma echoed, "That's right, I think so as well."
"Uhh." Rose couldn't help troubledly replying, "But even if I take it, it won't be of much use..."
……
They were all good kids.
At this time, Dark chimed in, "How can that be? Although you didn't join the dueling club this semester, you'll definitely use it in the second year. This horn has a very pure aura, it's really quite suitable for you."
"That's right." Dianna immediately nodded and said, "It really suits you!"
When Rose was still feeling hesitant, Emma slightly raised her volume, "It's like this, I'm not very interested in the ox horn or the lion fang. If you guys are willing to pay me with some magic crystal coins, I'll give up my share of the material."
Although the magic crystal coins were also valuable, it was still inferior to these rare materials that could be used as core items for crafting.
However, Emma's demand for magic crystal coins was higher than that of other materials, so for her personally, the value of the magic crystal coins was comparable to those two kinds of core materials.
If this deal could be concluded, it would be beneficial to both parties.
But Dianna didn't think too much about it. She simply followed Emma's proposal and asked, "Will ten coins be enough?"
Emma smiled and nodded as she answered, "Of course that's enough. If you give me ten magic crystal coins, I won't participate in the distribution of these core materials."
"Then it's settled."
With a nod, Dianna turned around and took out ten magic crystal coins from her backpack—hers and Rose's share of the magic crystal coins were kept together.
Upon receiving the ten magic crystal coins, Emma could be said to have obtained the remuneration she wanted and was visibly quite satisfied.
"Then…"
But after obtaining the remaining two lion fangs, Dianna's eyes began turning round and round as she sank into thought for some time. Then suddenly, she picked up a lion fang and put it in her palm before stretching out her hand and saying to Dark, "Here! Five magic crystal coins!"
Not only did this sudden move catch Emma and Rose by surprise, it also made Dark couldn't help but laugh.
Without saying anything else, he took out five magic crystal coins from his backpack, stacked them one by one on Dianna's palm, and said with a smile, "Five coins it is."
Dianna beamed even more happily.
Dark then took the lion fang from her hand.
In this way, he had basically gained a new core material.
As for the remaining fang, it would of course be Dianna's share.
Seeing the interaction between them, a feeling of envy spontaneously rose in Emma's heart.
But there were some things that couldn't be envied.
She let out a small sigh. The only thing she could do was to diligently study the magic crystal she had obtained.
These twenty magic crystal coins might just give her the opportunity to make a breakthrough.
……
After Dark obtained the lion fang, his gains from this trip to the dungeon rose by another level.
To sum it up, he got:
① Rusty sword
② Eighteen-sided crystal
④ Living metal
⑤ Lion fang
⑥ Magic crystal coin X5
As for the other materials, they could be ground into powders for various experiments or perhaps used as supplementary materials for magic crafting, but this wasn't important.
With his two fingers, Dark twirled the lion fang that ultimately fell into his hand, thinking about how to use it.
"It would be great if there's a Lion Grass. I can definitely use this lion fang to try to craft [Coronamon] with the [Pride Fruit] grown by the Lion Grass."
"But in order to successfully craft [Coronamon], I'm afraid I still need to add some supplementary materials with the fire attribute."
"Well, let's go to Kitties Flower and Tree Shop tomorrow to ask about it."
"Even if there's still no way to solve the problem of lion grass' tendency to bite people, I can still opt to rent it."
"Hiss~ I always feel that doing this is a bit like a scumbag using someone else as a surrogate."
"No, I still have to go there!"
Coronamon was the pre-evolved form of Apollomon, the Sun God of the Olympos XII (奥林匹斯十二神) in 《Digimon》.
It occupied a very important position in Dark's research plan on [Pride].
If he could make [Coronamon] evolve into the Mega Level [Apollomon] during his research, then he could basically graduate from his research on [Pride].
So even if there was a possibility of failure, he still had to try to craft it.
For the same reason, he was also planning to craft [Lunamon].
……
As time passed, the more than ten teams that applied to move on their own returned one by one.
Professor Nini proceeded to count the number of returning teams with her fingers. It wasn't until the students from the last team appeared in her field of vision did she quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
"Everyone has returned!"
Limiting the scope of their exploration only to the first and second floors of the dungeon had indeed minimized the risk of danger.
As long as they kept in mind the pointers taught in class and remained cautious, it would be unlikely for the first years who dared to form an exploration team to come into accidents.
Even when they were only beginners, magisters would be far stronger than other combatants of the same level.
The fact was as such.
If the hidden rift hadn't been triggered, White would've been able to sweep through the second floor just by using his [Troll] alone.
So in the end, only two people triggered the [Dungeon Escaper].
This price was barely within what Professor Nini could afford.
It was just that she would probably have to scrimp and save for the following month.
Thinking that those two people were truly annoying, Professor Nini patted her own cheeks to boost her spirit and said, "Now that everyone's here, the next thing on the agenda is to showcase your spoils. Starting from Noble House, line up and show me the drops you obtained after hunting monsters as proof, and I will note them down one by one. Your performance for this task will be calculated into your final grades."
Because the students had previously known about this, the announcement only generated some small whispers.
"Let's go first."
Without being self-effacing, Dark directly told Meowth to go forward with the bloodthirsty giant ax to display it.
The students had already seen this giant ax, but it wasn't until Dark formally reported it that some of them finally learned that Dark and the others had actually succeeded in hunting the floor boss!
This achievement was truly astonishing.
Immediately afterwards, Dianna and Rose also took their turns to come on stage.
Following them was Doron's team...
The whole procedure progressed very quickly—everyone basically went up and then went down.
It didn’t take long for Professor Nini to finish the entire recording process.
Looking at the results she had jotted down made her feel rather pleased.
"If I tell Aunt Silver that my students successfully hunted the floor boss, she'll probably not reproach me as much, right?"
……
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